MIXING & EFFECTS
Mixer Track Types
This section explains the various types of tracks available in the Mixer.

- Mixer Menu
- Tracks Group Selector
- Solo Switch
(activate to hear only the audio output from the selected mixer track)
- Mixer Tracks
- Track Panning
- Track Volume
- Master Track
- Insert Tracks
- Send Tracks
- External Effects Banks
- Mixer Track Properties
- Audio Input/Output Routing
The Mixer contains 64 insert tracks (8),
4 send tracks (9)
and a master track (7).
The insert tracks display in groups of 16 tracks at once. To access the other
groups, use the Tracks
Group Selector (2). Group A displays
tracks 1-16, group B displays tracks 17-32,
group C - tracks 33-48
and group D - tracks 49-64.
- Insert Tracks - The output of all audio instruments
in FL Studio is routed to one of the 64 available insert tracks. In the default
Mixer setup, once the audio signal is processed with the integrated
filters (equalizer, volume and panning) it is send to the master mixer track
(7).
However, you are free to select the output of each insert track
- you can also route the audio output to any ASIO output (for users with
ASIO enabled audio cards) or even another insert track. The latter is a very
powerful feature allowing you to create advanced mixer setups with groups
and subgroups
of insert tracks (see Mixer
Track Properties).
- Send Tracks - FL Studio contains four send
tracks. The send tracks do not receive a direct audio input from the instruments,
but they can receive audio
from one or more of the 64 insert tracks (you can adjust the amount of
signal sent by each insert track from its properties panel,
see Mixer
Track Properties below). The purpose of send tracks is the ability
to setup common effects (for ex. reverb and delay) once in a send track
and then being able to mix more or less of the insert tracks audio with
it, as opposed to adding the same effect in each insert
track.
- Master Track - Unless some of the insert
tracks are routed directly to an ASIO output, the whole audio output of FL Studio
goes though the master mixer
track
for
final processing before the final output.